Barnesian

Debt is levelling out at about 100% of GDP which is fine. A typical UK household would be happy to have net debt including mortgages equal to annual income. So would a company. I know the government … (View Post)

You never have to pay it back. You roll it over and grow it. Nothing inconsistent with that. You need to keep the growth in debt roughly in line with the growth in your GDP. It would be calamitous fo… (View Post)

This fellow who creeps into children's bedrooms with no safeguarding and gives big presents to rich children and nothing to poor children worries me. Father Christmas sounds like a priest. Santa is a… (View Post)

YouGov poll in November showed that 54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said, in exchange for single market access, they would now accept full free movement f… (View Post)

I prefer progressive ladder to slippery slope. In 20 years time we'll look back on this (probably not me!) and wonder what all the fuss was about. Similar to the 1967 Abortion Act. I hope that a wide… (View Post)